SEE HOW MUCH SAMSUNG WILL MAKE FOR EVERY IPHONE X SOLD

Samsung actually has a vested interestin the iPhone X being a huge success.According to The Wall Street Journal,the company stands to make around$110 from each phone sold, which alltold could result in billions more thanthe company even made on its ownmost-recent flagship, the Galaxy S8.

To be clear, all that money will go toSamsung Group, the conglomerate, asopposed to specifically the mobiledivision of the company.

Analysts say Samsung could make $4billion more off the iPhone x than it didthe Galaxy S8.

Why thewindfall? Samsung made the OLEDdisplay, NAND flash, and DRAM chipsin the iPhone. It’s currently the onlycompany capable of manufacturingthese items at the volume that Appleneeds, which means Apple has to buythe parts from Samsung.If the iPhone X sells the way analyststhink it will, that means Samsungstands to make billions of dollars offits competition. In fact, the Journalreports that one analyst thinksSamsung will likely earn $4 billionmore from selling parts to Apple thanit did from sales of its own phone.“These are two of the largestcompanies on the planet deeply tied atthe hip and directly competitive,”David Yoffie, a professor at HarvardBusiness School, who has studiedApple and serves on Intel Corp.’sboard told The Journal. “That makesthis stand out compared with almostany relationship you can think of.”